(A) Every unsafe residential or nonresidential building within the town shall be deemed in violation of this article whenever such building constitutes a hazard to the health, safety or welfare of the town's citizens. Those conditions which may be found to create such a hazard are:
(1) The attraction of insects or rodents;
(2) Susceptibility to fires or any other hazardous condition or circumstance;
(3) Dangerous conditions constituting a threat to children;
(4) Frequent use by vagrants;
(5) Susceptibility to vandalism;
(6) Defective construction;
(7) Overloaded structural parts; or
(8) Dilapidation, deterioration, or decay.
(B) In making the preliminary determination of whether or not a building is unsafe in violation of this article, the Zoning Enforcement Officer may, by way of illustration and not limitation, consider the presence or absence of the following conditions:
(1) Holes or cracks in the building's floors, walls, ceilings or roof which might attract or admit rodents and insects, or become breeding places for rodents and insects.
(2) The collection of garbage or rubbish in or near the building which might attract rodents and insects, or become breeding places for rodents and insects.
(3) Violations of the state building code, the state electrical code, or the fire codes which constitute a fire hazard in such building.
(4) The collection of garbage, rubbish or combustible materials which constitute a fire hazard in such building.
(5) The use of such building or nearby grounds or facilities by children as a play area.
(6) Violations of the state building code which might result in danger to children using the building or nearby grounds or facilities as a play area.
(7) Repeated use of such building by transients and vagrants, in the absence of sanitary facilities, for living, sleeping, cooking or eating.
(Ord. 11-9, passed 9-12-2011)